Re: The ego what is it? How to transcend?
Thank you for starting this thread and thank you everyone who has come here and expressed their sincerity to raise awareness above awareness of ego.
I notice a big shift in myself when I stop the discussion and intellectualization and actually take my ego into a clearing session. Boy, that is another whole ball of wax. Kind of what livingness does to test one's vaunted words against real responses, but all within a 1.5 hour timeframe.
Tears, justifications, angry comments, confessions of hidden thoughts -- Ego was being thoroughly routed, but on a gradient, out of kindness to this sensitive loving being. "Scan the incident from the viewpoint of how you caused stress to others". Gulp. If it were not being done on such a forgiving gradient I would not have let anyone have me approach my ego to this extent.
At the same time, during this 1.5 hours of insightful looking, I also saw that it is planet-wide, mostly expressed as feeling sorry for self and others. David Hawkins said one of the biggest issues on this planet is self-pity, which I see as inverse of ego drives.
Honestly, I was not looking forward to tomorrow's session but for the faith and love of one human being: Joyful co-existence is my prize for dying the small death.
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